Ahmed Shabana

Since his appointment as Orascom Development’s Group Chief Digital Officer in 2021, Dr. Shabana has led the group digital transformation strategy and implementation across its destinations and hotels. He started his career at IBM before pursuing his doctoral studies. He later taught at Texas A&M University for seven years before joining the Advisory practice at Ernst and Young LLP in 2000. He joined the Partnership in 2004 and served clients in the financial services and Telecommunications sectors in the US and Switzerland. In the Middle East, he served commercial and governmental clients. He joined IBM Middle East in 2015 as a Smarter Government leader for Saudi Arabia and was involved in several of the Kingdom’s large digital transformation initiatives. He is fluent in Arabic, English, French and Spanish.

Shabana holds a Ph.D. in Information Systems from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and an MBA from the American University in Cairo.